Title Unbearable
Author landofthekwt
Rating K
Prompt Clue
Word Count 428
Warning none
Summary Ranma reflects on his father
Seeing the old man playing the panda just so he could lie around and eat them out of house and home was too much. Fathers were supposed to set an example for their children no live like lazy moochers. Praying on the kindness and generosity of the mother and the desperate need for love and affection of the little boy was too much.
It was days like this tha made Ranma wonder if his father had become an animal. He had adapted to the zoo and the circus because they provided free food without any significant effort.. It had never occurred to Ranma that he and his father were freeloaders at the Tendo dojo living off the generosity of their hosts due to past friendships without contributing anything.
They tolerated their perverted master. Groveling at his feet because they were afraid to confront him. As a result he was allowed to mooch off the Tendos and use the dojo as his base of operations for his nefarious activities. Their behavior made it difficult to impossible to respect either old man or Mr. Tendo.
All his own problems could be laid at his father's feet. His engagement to Akane was nothing more than his attempt to steal the Tendo dojo and provide himself with free food and lodging for life. His engagement to Ucchan had been nothing more than the stealing of her father's cart. She had been discarded as soon as he had the cart.
His own disaster at Jusenkyo was the result of his father forging into the springs without even reading the guide books because they were in Chinese. If he had known what lay in store for him he never would have followed him to China. As if his experience at spring was not bad enough it was followed closely by his father's gluttony inflicting itself on the Chinese Amazons ( which had brought Shampoo into his life)
The truth was that it was not the fact that his father turned into a panda that made him unbearable. His form simply reflected his nature. A lazy glutton who lived off the hard work of others. Even the Anything-Goes School of Martial Arts which his father was such an advocate was nothing more than using whatever was necessary to achieve one's ends.
Still he would not turn his back on the old man. If necessary he would go to any lengths to save the old man. He just wished his father made it easier to love and respect, but sometime the old man was just unbearable.